We performed a comparison between SAP BW4HANA and SAP IQ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Warehouse solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The ability to instantly pull data is the most valuable feature."
"I like how it blends no-code and ABAP code for complex transformations during data loading."
"We like that it is an SAP product, so we can easily connect with the SAP ERP system."
"I like the reporting features of the solution."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is that the infrastructure is easy to understand."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"Provides a great analytics engine with all the capabilities."
"The solution is easier to maintain than traditional SAP products."
"Columnar storage allows high compression, high load rates and high query performance."
"Valuable features for us include the compression, speed, fast response time, and easy object maintenance."
"Unbeatable speed and compression with a colummn-structured relational database."
"The primary benefit of SAP IQ is its ability to limit the expansion of the costly SAP HANA database, which has limited storage capacity. This necessitates a form of data management that involves moving data from SAP HANA to SAP NLS, which is essentially archiving. This allows us to retain access to the data via a link whenever it is required."
"The column-based technologies (basically all the database for ITP) are used for SAP IQ. It is used as a column-based solution."
"It is very robust for ad hoc DW queries and its columnar compression is unique and valuable."
"It takes too long to escalate problems from the first level of support."
"One thing that could be enhanced in SAP BW4HANA is the user interface for process chains."
"Pricing would be a good improvement. A lot of customers think that it's very expensive and especially support is very expensive."
"The speed of operations could be a little faster."
"We cannot integrate with third-party tools like Python or advanced integration options. You can't fine-tune tables within BW or generate specific views or reports."
"The product needs to improve with more performance and fewer data layers."
"It's complicated to use. You need to spend a lot of time learning about it. The interface could be improved. It's not intuitive to build a data model and use their ETL tools."
"Not a ten because it's expensive and its ecosystem is not very open."
"The room for improvement would be the marketing of the product, because this product is much better than advertised."
"The organization who owns the product does not support it well and appears not to be doing significant development for the future."
"The solution works best when combined with other SAP solutions. If the environment has other systems other options might be better."
"I think the universe should be part of the Sybase IQ tool set."
"Multiplex is very problematic. There are consistency problems in the metadata, meaning it is possible to lose metadata consistency. You should make sure you have healthy backups."
"Concurrency and functional error messaging."
SAP BW4HANA is ranked 7th in Data Warehouse with 36 reviews while SAP IQ is ranked 16th in Data Warehouse with 17 reviews. SAP BW4HANA is rated 7.4, while SAP IQ is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of SAP BW4HANA writes "An easy-to-operate and administer tool that needs to consider revising its existing licensing cost". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP IQ writes "Easy to use, highly stable, but integration could improve". SAP BW4HANA is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Snowflake, SAP HANA, Amazon Redshift and SAP Business Warehouse, whereas SAP IQ is most compared with Snowflake, SAP HANA, SQL Server, Apache Hadoop and SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise. See our SAP BW4HANA vs. SAP IQ report.
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